The emergence of 21st-century skills convinced educational institutions in modifying teaching styles, which lead to the introduction of blended, flipped, and personalized learning. Studies demonstrated present-day best practices, but none provided a practical assessment procedure. Thus, this study aimed to develop a tool in evaluating learning…

This mixed-method study introduced an adaptive scaffolding system to support middle school science problem-based learning (PBL) activities. 298 6th-graders were grouped into three conditions, which are the adaptive scaffolding group, the non-adaptive scaffolding group, and a control group that did not receive any scaffoldings. Results showed that…

Middle school mathematics education is subject to ongoing reform based on advances in digital instructional technologies, especially learning games, leading to recent calls for investment in "personalized learning." Through an extensive literature review, this investigation identified three priority areas that should be taken into…

In this article, the effects of personalized narration in multimedia learning on learners' computer perceptions and task-related attitudes were examined. Twenty-six field independent and 22 field dependent participants studied the computer-based multimedia lessons on C-Programming, either with personalized narration or non-personalized narration.…

We present a new approach for the organization of schools, which we call the flexible scheduling paradigm (FSP). FSP improves student learning by dynamically redeploying teachers and other pedagogical resources to provide students with customized learning conditions over shorter time periods called "mini-terms" instead of semesters or years. By…

The purpose of this study was to compare high school Math, Science, Social Studies, English, and Foreign Language teachers' implementation of teaching practices in terms of their pedagogical dimensions in a one-to-one computing environment. A survey was developed to measure high school teachers' implementation of teaching practices associated with…

The development of Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) is in the scope of research groups and educators aiming to propose suitable mechanisms for the organization of self-controlled and self-directed learning, providing students with tools and services for access to content and human intelligence inside and outside the educational institutions.…

LS-Lab provides automatic support to comparison/evaluation of the Learning Object Sequences produced by different Curriculum Sequencing Algorithms. Through this framework a teacher can verify the correspondence between the behaviour of different sequencing algorithms and her pedagogical preferences. In fact the teacher can compare algorithms…

A discussion of how individualized instruction has been used by Xerox to: 1) identify appropriate instructional techniques; and 2) reduce costs by devising a delivery system by which programs prepared under a "single point" design/development concept can be distributed to users at various geographical locations. (Author)

Developers of self instruction units sometimes become so involved in the design and development of materials that some of the steps in the systems approach are overlooked or minimized. (Author)

The design of instruction delivery systems is described as an engineering discipline. Structured learning for individualization of instruction is defined. Instruction delivery applications are identified in formal training and job performance areas. Utility of the concept of structured learning is discussed. (Author)

Describes a cooperative project to develop materials for a self-paced, personalized system of instruction (PSI) to be used in core engineering courses offered at six participating colleges. Faculty training in PSI methods, cost effectiveness, and project evaluation are discussed. Four references are listed. (FM)

Presents an overview of the revitalized emphasis on individualized instruction and competency based education as a means extending existing on-campus college and university programs to adult students in an off-campus format, and discusses current operating models of individualized instruction. (Author)

An overview and philosophical discussion of the current use of instructional technology in naval training. This essay focuses on the process of instructional development and establishes a parallel between the concepts of instructional systems development and general management theory. (VT)